Improvement in speaking picture-books



T. BRAND. Speaking Picture-Book.

No. 223,108. Patented Dec. 30,1879.

INVENTOR:

Tem/wflraml WITNESSES ATTORNEY.

N.PETERS. PKOTO-LITHOGRAFNER, WASHINGTON, D c.

UNITED STATES PA ENTOFF oE.

THEODOR BRAND, or SONNEBERG, GERMANY.

IMPROVEMENT l N SPEAKING PICTURE-BOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,108, dated December 30, 1879; application filed October 15, 1879; patented in Germany, December 3, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODOR BRAND, of Sonnebe'rg, in Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Speaking Picture- Books, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to picture-books combining in the book form, with pictures of animals or human beings, mechanical means for producing sounds in imitation of the voices of the beings represented.

111 the accompanying drawing, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, A represents one of the picture-sheets bound in a book. The reverse side of each picturesheet may contain text referring to the picture on the preceding sheet. At B part of the text-page is shown, with the title The Rooster, referring; to the picture on the op posite page, A. The greater part of the sheet B is represented out off, so as to show the mechanism beneath. On this sheet'B, which, however, may also contain a picture on the exposed side, an arrow, 0, is shown, which points to one of the strings D, having heads 6 fastened to their ends. By pnlling'the head or string to which the arrow points a mechanism is operated whiehimitates the voice of the subject represented on the picture.

E are bellows and whistles of the wellknownconstruction for imitating diii'erent voices, and operated by the strings D. They are inclosed in a box so combined and bound together with the picture-sheets that the whole purpose described.

THEODOR BRAND. Witnesses:

MAX ORTELLI, E. ARNOLD. 

